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Show E?viw dlltortal Page 3A Lakeside Review Wednesday, March 27, 1985 f I yWj$kwll!-f- . L: 4 w15; sawiWifrS-- &! Jeswiir 11;nmm-- a. k"- i iwastMWMweA , .. A,. ... - iteiwiigliA mmMmmmmimwm fr W feWWWfcia ? f" tes - WiSW- iWW"-- ' , !' f1 i' w i ' , Wigi 4v ' 4 lilltell- if waA''fc.v4.vr "i,,''SSS!gjiiii!f,j . Js- - p " . xwv w aB: n 1'-- i '- IV- !','4( ':'W''Jf!Kf Staff Photo by Robert Regan SEATS at Special Events Center are empty after state high school basketball championships. However, many of the seats were never filled during the competition. Reporters Notes Goldenwest Credit Union Uncle IRA say: Empty Seats Mean Fewer Memories ROBERT F. REGAN Review Staff It is late as I stand here in the Special Events Center. The game is over and the crowds are gone. In fact, there were hardly any crowds at all. The bottom sections were hardly half full and the top circle of scats was completely void of life. And I remember back to the last state championship game I attended while in high school. row than today. Back in 1971 the Salt Lake papers said whoever won our game should take state. Our hopes were that it could be us. That we could be champions. But it was not to be. East High beat us and then went on to first place. That day we got out of school early, and instead of all the other things we could have done - even then - my friend Greg and I decided to go to the game. -- -- Now this story isnt a trip His army surplus truck down memory lane. It is a needed gas, it always needed plea to those who missed going to their final high school gas, and we were late. So the basketball games. It is a plea only seats left were those in against apathy and for the the stratosphere of the Special chance to have one of those Events Center. The players experiences that ends up to be looked like the people you see in binoculars held the wrong much more important tomor way, and of course, the refs were bums. They were always bums when you went to state. I cant remember ever sitting down because there was nothing else to do but stand. Most of the time I was jumping and yelling, but when I sang our school song I was stilled with its counterpointed solemnity. Late in the fourth quarter our center, Scott Snow, fouled out. How could he do that to us? How could he do that to me. felt deprived and cheated, yet I knew if we all yelled louder, our spirit would infuse the flight of the ball into our hoop and out of theirs, Intact, we yelled so loudly I had t'o stop and plug my ears. At the games end we left the humming silence and, as Greg 1 and two years. Even though a mission and college have kept our paths apart, whenever I drift back to those high school years I find I stop at one of these keenly held and shared experiences. hear in Special Events Center is the echo of my own yelling, of my own growth and change. It is the remembrance of energetic peaks and tin ashI know now what I this empty ing lows. It is for these experiences we go to sporting events in high school, and it is these experiences that make up the essence of what we call life. Todays women and their daughters are a motley group. Their abilities, tastes and interests are as varied as their sizes and temperaments. But, one difference divides the older women from the younger females and gives the daughters something their mothers lacked - the opportunity to participate and compete in or-- ganized athletics. Twenty years ago girls in junior high and high schools were expected to excel in quiet fields of endeavor. Scho- pursuits, with the exception of mathematics and lastic subjects, were of course, were skills homemaking to the taught exclusively okay for girls. And, young women. physical education for girls consisted of individual skill calisthenics and some team sports. Girls who to compete in sports were, for the most part, out of luck, although some schools sponsored some intramural contests in softball and some But, classes mainly sports, limited wanted inter-scho- ol short years ago. Most mothers of todays young female athletes never had the chance to Cross. prove their prowess and that The girls played well and was a loss to them anil to represented their schools with those who may have shared in fine sportsmanship, on and off their enjoyment of sports. Womens lives have the court. Most accomplished their goals and all experienced changed in many ways some the thrill of competition, win- good, some not so positive the past decades. But, recning and losing. was of This type experience ognition of women's abilities few a in athletics, from Olympic not available to girls just losing to Highland, beating Cyprus by 14 points and then losing a close game to Woods - --- in The Lakeside Review encourages readers to submit letters to the editor. Content of letters should address issues of interest to our readership throughout north Davis County and in Roy. Letters should be typed, double-spaceand must include the name and telephone number of the writer. d, 12 GUARANTEED IRA RATE through first quarter 1985 (18 month variable rate account) REDUCED TAX LIABILITY e A GUARANTEED RETIREMENT NESTEGG A FREE SPIN OF THE GOLDENWEST WHEEL OF FORTUNE (everyone wins cash or merchandise pnzes) Rlffitftl OCCMMt mptni to $100 000 Em!) 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